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Nhbs Monthly Catalogue New and Forthcoming Titles Issue: 2016/09 September 2016 Customer.Services@Nhbs.Com +44 (0)1803 865913 nhbs monthly catalogue new and forthcoming titles Issue: 2016/09 September 2016 www.nhbs.com [email protected] +44 (0)1803 865913 Welcome to the September 2016 edition of the NHBS Monthly Catalogue. This Zoology: monthly update contains all of the wildlife, science and environment titles added to Mammals nhbs.com in the last month. Birds Editor's Picks - New in Stock this Month Reptiles & Amphibians Fishes ● The Arctic Guide: Wildlife of the Far North Invertebrates ● Animals of the Kruger National Park Palaeontology ● Baobabs of the World: The Upside-Down Trees of Madagascar, Africa and Marine & Freshwater Biology Australia General Natural History ● Beaks, Bones & Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival has Shaped Birds and their Behaviour Regional & Travel ● Birds: Myth, Lore & Legend Botany & Plant Science ● Bird Photographer of the Year Animal & General Biology ● Britain's Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland Evolutionary Biology ● Charles Darwin's Life With Birds: His Complete Ornithology Ecology ● Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 6: Lagomorphs and Rodents I Habitats & Ecosystems ● Herpetofauna Mexicana, Volume 1: Snakes of Mexico Conservation & Biodiversity ● Insects and Other Arthropods of Tropical America ● Mountain Flowers Environmental Science ● Remarkable Birds Physical Sciences ● Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form & Function of Bones Sustainable Development ● Simon King's Nature Watch: How to Track and Observe Wildlife Data Analysis ● Snow Leopards Reference ● Tropical Fruits and Other Edible Plants of the World: An Illustrated Guide ● Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil, Volume 2: The Atlantic Forest of Southeast Brazil, including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Stock titles ● Aposematic Poison Frogs (Dendrobatidae) of the Andean Countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela ● Badgered to Death: The People and Politics of the Badger Cull ● Collecting and Preserving Genetic Material for Herpetological Research ● The Eurasian Beaver Handbook: Ecology and Management of Castor fiber ● A Guide to Hoyas of Borneo ● Multimedia Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds: Albatrosses and Fulmarine Petrels ● The Okavango Companion: All-in-One Guide to Common Animals and Plants ● Standard French Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico ● Standard Spanish, English, and Scientific Names of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico ● A Taxonomic Guide to the Stick Insects of Borneo New in paperback ● Nests, Eggs, & Incubation: New Ideas About Avian Reproduction Find out more about services for libraries and organisations: NHBS LibraryPro Best wishes, -The NHBS Team View this Monthly Catalogue as a web page or save/print it as a .pdf document. Mammals Badger 64 pages | illustrations | Jim Crumley Hardback | NYP 10/2016 | In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and 9781910192627 | #232037A | £9.99 personal with British wildlife – here, the badger. With his inimitable passion and vision, Jim Add to basket relives memorable encounters with ... Badgered to Death 240 pages | 2 b/w illustrations | The People and Politics of the Badger Cull Paperback | 08/2016 | 9780993040757 Dominic Dyer and Chris Packham | #231429A | £8.99 Add to basket Under cover of darkness in the English countryside, private contractors are shooting thousands of badgers as part of a nine-year British government programme to control the spread of bovine TB. In this hard-hitting book, Dominic Dyer ... Belinda: The Forest How Red Squirrel 96 pages | colour photos | Peter Trimming Hardback | 08/2016 | 9781910878552 | Peter Trimming documents a small colony of wild native red squirrels from autumn 2012 to #231546A | £12.95 Add to basket summer 2015. His research is based at Forest How, which is situated in Eskdale, Cumbria. During his research, Peter witnesses a devastating outbreak ... Canine Olfaction Science and Law 510 pages | 69 b/w illustrations, 32 Advances in Forensic Science, Medicine, Conservation, and Environmental Remediationtables | Tadeusz Jezierski, John Ensminger and LE Papet Hardback | 05/2016 | 9781482260236 | The value of the canine nose is well-documented, and working dogs are being utilized for their #231530A | £69.99 Add to basket olfactory skills in an increasing number of fields. Not only are dogs used by police, security, and the military, but they are also now used in ... Chevaux des Abruzzes [Horses of Abruzzo] 144 pages | 150+ colour photos | Patrice Raydelet Paperback | 06/2016 | 9782884194310 The lives of horses in Abruzzo could resemble that of their counterparts in many parts of the | #232119A | £50.99 Add to basket world. However, most horses are used for riding, in equestrian centers or for outdoor riding, and live in total freedom much of the year, along ... Contribution to the Knowledge of the Mammalian Fauna of Jammu and 129 pages | b/w illustrations, b/w maps Kashmir, India | Paperback | 01/1983 | #231616A | S Chakraborty £15.99 Add to basket Several reports on the mammalian fauna of Jammu and Kashmir have been published from the second half of the nineteenth century to date. But the majority of these reports are by naturalists and deal with larger species of mammals, so that ... Coyote Settles the South 196 pages | illustrations | John Lane Hardback | 03/2016 | 9780820349282 | One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house #232012A | £28.95 Add to basket that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula ... Dawn of the Dog 260 pages | 129 colour photos | The Genesis of a Natural Species Paperback | 08/2016 | 9780997490206 Janice Anne Koler-Matznick and Alan Whittbecker | #232066A | £26.99 Add to basket The dog may not be what most think it is. The common origin of the dog story says the dog was a gray wolf that "somehow" turned into the dog after it associated with humans. Dawn of the Dog reveals this idea is merely ... Ecology and Ethology of the Spotted Deer Axis axis axis (Erxleben) 100 pages | 24 plates with illustrations; (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) colour & b/w illustrations | Paperback | 01/1984 | #231562A | PG Tak and BS Lamba £15.99 Add to basket The Spotted Deer or Cheetal, Axis axis axis (Erxleben), is one of the most common and perhaps the most handsome members of the deer family (Cervidae) in India. The colour is rusty brown with numerous white spots all over the body ... Falsche Vampire & Fliegende Hunde: Die Geheimnisvolle Welt der 232 pages | 332 colour illustrations | Fledermause [False Vampire & Flying Foxes: The Mysterious Hardback | 12/2015 | 9783891047989 | #231527A | £33.50 Add to basket Martin Straube In this book Martin Straube gives fascinating insight into the lives of Germany's native bats. In a comprehensible and entertaining way, he explains how bats search out their roosts, and live in them, find food and raise their young. Field Guide to the Mammals of Singapore 50 pages | colour photos, colour Anish Banerjee illustrations | The Field Guide to the Mammals of Singapore is a comprehensive guide to the 65 odd species of Paperback | 07/2016 | 9781535484169 mammals in Singapore. It covers important identification characteristics of each mammal along | #231814A | £23.99 Add to basket with their ecology and local status. Field Guide to the Mammals of the Middle East [English / Arabic] 310 pages | 500+ colour & b/w Assad Adel Serhal, Saeed Abdulla Alkhuzai, Jonathan Kingdon, Juan M Varela Simo, Karim illustrations | Farah and Paperback | 01/2015 | 9789953032191 This guide covers all 200 terrestrial and marine mammals found in the Middle East, particularly | #225127A | £34.99 Add to basket in Arabic-speaking countries, where land is surrounded by many bodies of water including the Hardback | 08/2016 | 9789953037196 | Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea ... #232179A | £49.99 Add to basket Gods, Ghosts and Black Dogs 160 pages | 40 b/w illustrations | The Fascinating Folklore and Mythology of Dogs Paperback | 03/2016 | 9781845848606 Stanley Coren | #231761A | £9.99 Add to basket Here is a rich collection of folklore, mythology, and tall tales concerning dogs. These provide a fascinating insight into the way in which humans think about dogs, and our emotional bond to our pets. The various stories include some that ... Ligers, Tigons, and Other Hybrid Mammals 139 pages | ~30 colour & b/w photos | A Summation and Critical Appraisal of Mammalian Hybrids Hardback | 04/2016 | 9780953158850 | Clinton Keeling and Russell J Tofts #231940A | £23.50 Add to basket In Ligers, Tigons, and Other Hybrid Mammals, the renowned zoologist, prolific writer and lecturer, Clinton Keeling, discusses, in his own inimitable and lively style, the often controversial subject of mammal hybrids. Lupi delle Alpi Marittime: Storie e Curiositá dei Branchi che Hanno 96 pages | colour photos | Ricolonizzato le Alpi [Wolves of the Maritime Alps: Paperback | 04/2016 | 9788879042000 | #199003A | £29.99 Add to basket Francesca Marucco After about seventy years of absence, the wolf has returned to the Alps during the last twenty years, colonizing the Maritime sector between Piedmont and France. Genetic analyzes have shown that the return is due to the natural dispersion ... Reindeer and Caribou 500 pages | 220 b/w illustrations | Health and Disease Hardback | NYP 02/2017 | Morton Tryland, Susan Kutz and Antti Oksanen 9781482250688 | #228491A | £159.00 Reindeer, with seven
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